I have been pondering lately how there seems to be so little time. We are always reaching for more. More of something. I find myself caught again in the hamster wheel. Running round and round but going nowhere and doing nothing that has much meaning. So I fall on my knees and ask, “God, what is really going on, I feel lost…. sort of empty” The answer back comes in a subtle whisper, “You are lonely”
My immediate response is to run. Switch on some music, any music… praise music! Or search the web. Not for anything in particular… just a distraction. A distraction from what? From facing that I have lost my humanness… again.
Today I am back in the book of John. I love John, he sees things the other disciples seemed to miss. Perhaps the deeper back story. John 1:12 "But as many as received Him, to them he gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:" Wow, the authority to become. That’s all futuristic language… like I can, I have the authority, but also the choice. I can, I have the authority to become a child… I can choose, I can sign the adoption papers… if I want to. I can be the child of God… accepted into His family. I can belong. I am welcome to come in and dwell with Him. if I want to.
What does it mean, “to those who believe in His name?” It almost feels like a tag line. I am a child of God to those…. but not to all??? Does that me I am a child of God to those who believe in Him. Aren’t I a child of God whether you believe in His name or not? Or is it just more of an explanation… that those who receive Him, believe in His name.
I am thinking of 1John 1:7a But if we walk in the light as He is in the light we have fellowship with one another. There is a brotherhood, a sisterhood a connection deeper than friends when we walk together in the light. I you receive Him and you receive Him, then we are related. We matter to each other like brothers and sisters. We are bother and sister in Him.
That means a lot to me today :)
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